From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Nov 23 16:03:10 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA06097 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Mon, 23 Nov 1998 16:03:10 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from alpo.whistle.com (alpo.whistle.com [207.76.204.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA06083 for ; Mon, 23 Nov 1998 16:03:06 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ambrisko@whistle.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by alpo.whistle.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id PAA08453 for ; Mon, 23 Nov 1998 15:52:52 -0800 (PST) Received: from crab.whistle.com(207.76.205.112), claiming to be "whistle.com" via SMTP by alpo.whistle.com, id smtpdrJ8450; Mon Nov 23 23:52:46 1998 Received: (from ambrisko@localhost) by whistle.com (8.9.1/8.9.1) id PAA38750 for freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG; Mon, 23 Nov 1998 15:52:02 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ambrisko) From: Doug Ambrisko Message-Id: <199811232352.PAA38750@whistle.com> Subject: Re: Changing the load address of the kernel? In-Reply-To: <199811232029.VAA08250@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de> from Oliver Fromme at "Nov 23, 98 09:29:03 pm" To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1998 15:52:02 -0800 (PST) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL29 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Oliver Fromme writes: | Robert Nordier wrote in list.freebsd-hackers: | > We do need a more capable netboot replacement, and if Lanworks is | > as responsive as they appear to be, then supporting their product | > may be an easy route to satisfying this requirement. | | They are. They support only DOS and Windows "officially", but | they have a UNIX person which answers to technical questions | quite fast. They also send free (!) evaluation packages upon | request. I ordered one, and it arrived two days later by UPS | express (from Canada to Germany). | | BTW, Linux supports the Lanworks boot ROMs. | | It would be nice to have FreeBSD support for those ROMs, too, | in one way or another. Even if we had a working netboot code, | many people aren't able to make their own EPROMs. Especially | those QPGA/FPGA (?) Flash memories required for many PCI cards | (like the EtherExpress Pro/100) aren't easy to make on your | own. Actually it is pretty easy to do it for the Intel cards since they is a utility from IBM that programs the flash boot rom on Intel cards. Various methods are at: http://www.slug.org.au/etherboot/ or archived in the netboot mailing list. Also it may be worth looking at: http://www.slug.org.au/etherboot/nilo/ I've hacked Etherboot to load FreeBSD/aout again and now to load FreeBSD/elf. I like the menu-options so I can load various things from the client. Doug A. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message